Eclipse Mosquitto 1.6.0/1.6.1/1.6.2/1.6.3/1.6.4 MQTT v5 Client Use-After-Free memory corruption

A vulnerability was found in Eclipse Mosquitto 1.6.0/1.6.1/1.6.2/1.6.3/1.6.4 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component MQTT v5 Client Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability (Use-After-Free). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 09/18/2019. It is possible to read the advisory at bugs.eclipse.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-11778 since 05/06/2019. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/19/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Eclipse

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• Mosquitto

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

VulDB Base Score: ≈5.5
VulDB Temp Score: ≈5.5
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Class: Memory corruption / Use-After-Free (CWE-119)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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05/06/2019 CVE assigned
09/18/2019 +135 days Advisory disclosed
09/19/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
09/19/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateAdvisory: bugs.eclipse.org

CVE: CVE-2019-11778 (🔒)

Created: 09/19/2019 02:04 PM
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